Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) mentor Gautam Gambhir provided free sweets to journalists on the eve of the Bengali New Year or Poila Baisakh on Saturday. The heartwarming inciden came about on the eve of KKR’s match in opposition to the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on the Eden Gardens. After tackling some robust questions on KKR’s season up to now, an ecstatic Gambhir distributed sweets to the journalists contained in the press field. The former LSG mentor uploaded a video of the identical on his social media handles.

“Shubho Noboborsho to everyone,” Gambhir captioned the video.

Shubho Noboborsho to everybody! #PohelaBoishak pic.twitter.com/QFEU7lYRac

— Gautam Gambhir (Modi Ka Parivar) (@GautamGambhir) April 14, 2024

Gambhir, a two-time IPL profitable captain with KKR, returned to the franchise as a mentor after spending two seasons at LSG with an identical position.

Gambhir had led KKR to IPL titles in 2012 and 2014, respectively. During Gambhir’s time at LSG, KKR misplaced all three matches at Eden Gardens to the Lucknow-based facet.

Ahead of the sport in opposition to LSG, Gambhir mentioned that his time with in Lucknow doesn’t make any distinction within the recreation.

“It is a new day, a new start. What difference does it make that what has happened in the last two years? It really makes no difference. We start from scratch,” mentioned Gambhir.

“All of us are really looking forward to the game tomorrow. You know, it is a quality side. But we are a quality side as well,” concluded.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sakib Hussain, Harshit Rana, Dushmantha Chameera, Srikar Bharat, Nitish Rana, Chetan Sakariya, Sherfane Rutherford, Allah Ghazanfar

Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Arshad Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manimaran Siddharth, Amit Mishra, Matt Henry, Mayank Yadav, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Prerak Mankad, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni.